JUSTICE REINVESTMENT: NORTH CAROLINA 43,220
45,000
Baseline Projected Prison Population
PROJECTED OUTCOMES $560M
40,000
averted costs and savings by FY2017
36,663
Prison Population in 2005
4,596
fewer people in prison than the projected FY2017 population
38,264
JR Projected Prison Population
41,030
35,000
Prison Population with Justice Reinvestment (JR) Policies Enacted (June 2011)
REALIZED OUTCOMES 37,794
Actual Prison Population as of June 30, 2015 30,000 2005
2007
2009
2011
2013
2015
11
prisons closed between 2011 and 2015 2017 Fiscal Year
Source: Actual and baseline prison population projection from the North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission, Current Population Projections FY2010/11 to FY2019/20 (Raleigh: North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission, 2011); Justice Reinvestment Act projections by the CSG Justice Center; Recent population updates are based on North Carolina’s Data Dashboard: http://randp.doc.state.nc.us/scripts/htmSQL.exe/docs/hsql/CM/DASHBOARD-FYorCY.hsql
5/6/16
Council of State Governments Justice Center
175
new probation officers in FY2014 and FY2015
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